DECODEURL$: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:26, 13 December 2024

The _DECODEURL$ function is the counterpart for _ENCODEURL$, it returns the decoded plain text URL of the given encoded URL.

result$ = _DECODEURL$(url$)

URL decoding may be required when parsing downloaded files for additional links and retrieving its addresses.
As it is possible, although not recommended, that a URL was encoded multiple times, this function can be called multiple times too until all encoded chars are resolved again, i.e. until the the given URL is returned unchanged as is.
It is safe to call this fucntion with an unencoded URL, it will be simply returned as is.
Note that this function performs no validation of the given URL, it expects a valid URL to be given and just does the decoding.

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 * URL decoding may be required when parsing [[Downloading Files|downloaded files]] for additional links and retrieving its addresses.
-* As it is possible, although not recommended, that a URL was encoded multiple times, this function can be called multiple times too until all encoded chars are resolved again, i.e. until no more percent (%) chars with a following 2 digit hex number exist in the URL.
+* As it is possible, although not recommended, that a URL was encoded multiple times, this function can be called multiple times too until all encoded chars are resolved again, i.e. until the the given URL is returned unchanged as is.
 * It is safe to call this fucntion with an unencoded URL, it will be simply returned as is.
 * Note that this function performs no validation of the given URL, it expects a valid URL to be given and just does the decoding.